Edit 15.4.2012.Now that there are two webcams for the ESTLAT joint project between Estonia and Latvia, about white tailed eagles, we need to change this topic, slightly, to make the connection more obvious.It is the same camera, same nest, but seehttp://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/12994

good morning! buzzards are working at the nest, and what is maybe more important: they are just sitting there on the branches and looking around. i think they are making sure it is a good place to stay. i'll post videos later but here are some pictures.

This buzzard pair is dilligent about getting the old nest up to their standards. When one moves into an already used house, there is still much to do. They are a handsome pair of birds.

P.S. The cows must have gone home. I wonder if they bawled so much because they wanted milking? Didn't someone say last year there is a dairy farm nearby? Perhaps it is the start of weaning the calves away from the cows so the milk can be sold. I don't know when calves are weaned in Estonia / Europe, but in Montana it was sometimes done in April. The calves were born usually in March, which to my mind was always a dangerous month for sudden snowstorms & even blizzards out there.

i've watched the buzzard-fight-video i posted in the end of WTE2012-thread again. it seems to me that the second buzzard who stayed in the nest between the fights was a little darker than the ones who have been decorating the nest to their liking during these past days. maybe its breast is spottier and the others have been more on the stripy side.

at 15.02 one buzzard came to the nest. climbed to the back branch and then went out of the picture, but it is staying somewhere quite near. it has called every now and then rather loudly.

there has been nothing special there since my last mail. i heard the buzzard call at 15.34 for the last time so far. it was talking to a blackbird who had some complaints. then rather soon it began to rain here just like at the BS nest and all the birds burst into singing like crazy.now the forest and the nest tree have such fresh and delicate colours.

So maybe there are more who are interested in the nest? No wonder, it`s a great nest. I see it has been sone action today, thank you for videos. So no bird are seen (but they have been heard) in the nest after the two who fell overboard?

ame,it must be a stranger buzzard trying to take over the nest & the female (?).. seen as a threat,so chased away.

that was my thought later, too: a strange intruder. at the moment when i was watching i thougth: oh how sweet, bridal flight with lots of singing and then some frolicing in the nest, but then i realized it had become nasty.

Lussi: i haven't seen/heard any other buzzard action after 15.34 when one of them sat outside the picture but by the camera and "talked" with a blackbird. since that it has rained - rained- rained - .... the scenery is beautifully watercoloured...

this clip was recorded at 17.21. it was raining gently and birds were singing.

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